Topic: congress

In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the U.S. Congress, Democrat Nancy Pelosi says she's "saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran ... discuss

As debate heats up in Washington over the federal budget, new research shines light on the growth in taxpayers’ funding for Planned Parenthood — the largest provider of abortions in America while, ... discuss

For the second time in two years, pro-abortion West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has vetoed a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy on unborn babies who studies show can feel intense pai ... discuss

Benjamin NetanyahuTony Perkins, Washington Update: Tomorrow's message by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Capitol Hill may be one of the most important speeches in modern times. For the ... discuss

President Obama speaks during a town hallmeeting on immigration, by Telemundo and MSNBC, at Florida International UniversityIBD Editorial: Rule Of Law: First, the president issues unlawful execut ... discuss

by Alan Caruba, Contributing Author: The strangest thing about Obama’s efforts to achieve friendly relations with Iran, something he has tried to do since he first took office in 2009, is that Iran ... discuss

Nigel Farage, leader of the UKIP
I attended the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this past weekend, and as usual, it ended with a much hyped but slanted presidential straw poll. Alterna ... discuss

The Republican Leader in the Senate John Boehner invites the Israeli Prime Minister, BiBi Netanyahu over to Congress, to address our lawmakers, smack-dab in the face of the would be dictator B. Hussei ... discuss

America is being b**ch slapped with every dying breath. Every labored, tortured, dying breath.
H/T Cry and Howl
From the Independent Sentinel - WH Plans to Develop a "Country Within a Country" of 1 ... discuss

by Ann Coulter: You can always tell the media are hiding something when they obsessively focus on Muslim atrocities someplace else in the world. Cable TV could cover Muslim atrocities 24 hours a day, ... discuss

As lawmakers in Congress struggle to find agreement in their fight to undo President Obama’s immigration policy, a state attorney general today voiced confidence in the courtroom battle over the exe ... discuss

NRA-ILA: In a familiarly troubling pattern, the Obama administration's wanton crusade against the Second Amendment marches on. You must act NOW if we are to stop them in their tracks! In an attempt t ... discuss

by Ron Paul: Late Friday night, Congress passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security for one week. This vote followed weeks of debate over efforts to attach a prohibition on funding ... discuss

Rev. Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said the liberal media, Congress, and the White House were shunning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because "anti-Isr ... discuss

Rev. Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said the liberal media, Congress, and the White House were shunning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because "anti-Isr ... discuss

Rev. Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said the liberal media, Congress, and the White House were shunning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because "anti-Isr ... discuss

Hussein Obama does not have "his" Americans-In-Waiting funding. Yet.
Congress Approves One-Week Pact to Fund Homeland Security
It was a long night for political junkies trying to keep track of wheth ... discuss

As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the m ... discuss

The murderous persecution and murder of Coptic Christians in Libya and Egypt.
In Russia:
Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned ... discuss

Neocon propaganda or fact? I report, you decide.
The Story:
This week, prosecutors in New York introduced eight documents recovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan as evidence in the trial ... discuss

FINALLYY!!!!.......heads are going to roll and people ( Commissioner John Koskinen ) are going to PRISON FOR A LONG TIME! why hasn't "Special Prosecutors" been assigned to the IRS, Benghazi and th ... discuss

“Why even have a Congress?” That was Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning’s question on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 3-2 vote in favor of new so-called “n ... discuss

A new Congressional bill with 110 co-sponsors would stop the Obama administration’s HHS mandate, which requires religious businesses, colleges and organizations to pay for abortion-causing drugs ... discuss

Leading pro-life organizations are re-launching a boycott of Girl Scout cookies after the Girl Scout group continued its abortion advocacy by honoring a radically pro-abortion Congresswoman.
The pro-l ... discuss

by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com: Members of the U.S. Senate today introduced legislation to completely ban taxpayer funding of abortions. Interestingly, not one Democrat signed on to the legislation, e ... discuss

Words cannot express the depth of disappointment and disgust I feel toward the most recent sellout by the GOP leadership to the Republican elites and Chamber of Commerce types and the perverse "p ... discuss

by Phil Kerpen, Contributing Author: Dear Professor McChesney*:I didn't think you could do it. Even with an obscene $196 million in funding from the Ford Foundation and George Soros, I never thought ... discuss

by Newt Gingrich: Friday morning at CPAC, I will outline the urgent need for a thorough Congressional investigation into efforts by our enemies to buy influence in the American political and governmen ... discuss

Members of the U.S. Senate today introduced legislation to completely ban taxpayer funding of abortions. Interestingly, not one Democrat signed on to the legislation, even though at least a couple of ... discuss

From The Journal SentinelBy Jason SteinHundreds of union members rally outside the Capitol in Madison on Tuesday to oppose a Republican-led measure that would make Wisconsin a right-to-work state. ... discuss

If Hussein Obama had his way he would just open our Southern borders to everyone then no one would ever be DEPORTED!....PapaMikeT
CLICK ON OBAMA'S HEAD TO WATCH VIDEO
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President Obama warned workers at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: implement executive amnesty, or else. He made the comments in a town hall event on immigration on MSNBC.
According to ... discuss

Interest in the 2016 presidential election contest is heating up. It is an arguably unfortunate aspect of the US national political scene that no more than midway through a presidential term, the nat ... discuss

by Alan Caruba, Contributing Author: The America that has existed from the days of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when its sovereignty was acknowledged by a treaty with England 1783, and it ... discuss

Arlene from Israel The situation surrounding the negotiations with Iran and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress daily grows more ominous, more convoluted, and more contentious. I would lik ... discuss

The West Virginia state legislature passed a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks. More than 18,000 ‘very late term’ abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn babies in Americ ... discuss

From Grumpy Elder - The Elementary and Secondary Act Re authorization bills now in front of both houses of Congress do nothing to limit the Department of Education..
, they could have been written ... discuss

NRA-ILA: President Obama insisted that if Congress would not enact his gun control agenda, he would do so on his own, through executive action. Whatever else can be said of the president’s track ... discuss

Because who in their right mind is going to want someone, whose Father says stuff like this, to be President of the United States of America? Not me.
Audio:
The Story:
Former Republican Rep. R ... discuss

Only It's Worse with Ex-IM Bank.It's Foreign Corporate Welfare!By Ken Blackwell, Contributing Author: There’s an old saying that all politics is local. If that is the case, it should follow that lo ... discuss

The Government Track Recordby Seton Motley, Contributing Author: Thursday is for freedom a very bad day. That is the day the free speech-free market Xanadu that is the Internet will be unilatera ... discuss

Sean McGarvey, President of the AFL-CIOBuilding Trades depart.addressing participantsat a Keystone XL Rally in Des Moines, Iowasaid thousands of workers would be helped by President Obama approvi ... discuss

Editorial Cartoon by Michael Ramirez shared in 2012by The Smallest Minority Report who also noted:In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,By robbing selected Peter to pay for col ... discuss

by Phil Kerpen, Contributing Author: Jonathan Gruber was, in the lower courts, the government’s principal expert. They relied on his “three-legged stool” metaphor to argue that (even though the ... discuss

by Ralph Benko, Contributing Author: The New Republic, in its February 8th issue, carries an article by Danny Vinik entitled Rand Paul Has the Most Dangerous Economic Views of Any 2016 Candidate. It ... discuss

Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 85 that the Constitution was the best frame of government that "the present views and circumstances of the country will permit." In our latest essay, we examine ... discuss

Obama Pushes Net Neutrality For Control Of Webby Kerby Anderson, Contributing Author: Ajit Pai has been a busy FCC Commissioner lately. He has been on various talk shows warning listeners about propos ... discuss

The British Parliament today defeated a measure by a Conservative MP designed to ban sex-selection abortions. The vote saw the Labor Party whip the vote and defend killing girl babies in abortions spe ... discuss

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. – Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, 1939
As the founder of America’s largest abortion chain, Margaret ... discuss

By Denise Hunnell, M.D.
During a wide-ranging interview while traveling from Manila to Rome, Pope Francis addressed and roundly condemned what he termed “ideological colonization”. By this he mean ... discuss

It should go without saying that the most sacred duty of our elected representatives is to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. Only on the Left would any American think otherwise. ... discuss

The state of our nations’ disunity is epic. Our once great nation is in an accelerating death spiral and nobody seems to know who to blame or what to do about it, no matter how obvious the answers t ... discuss

‘It is estimated that cyberattacks cost U.S. businesses approximately $100 billion per year. And a successful attack against our electrical grid, or industrial control systems that operate other cri ... discuss

by Alan Caruba, Contributing Author: We begin with the reality that the United States and many other nations are at war with militant Islamists. They are a growing army of religious zealots murdering ... discuss

Dear candidate for president of the United States:
Congratulations on your decision to pursue a career as leader of the free world. The following exam, while in no way comprehensive, is intended to as ... discuss

Union Supported:‘Not Just A Pipeline,’But ‘A Lifeline For Thousands’Editorial Cartoon by AF Brancoby Marita Noon: After six years of dithering, the Keystone pipeline project has finally cleare ... discuss

by Michael Barone
Reckless disregard. It's a phrase in legal writing that means "gross negligence without concern for danger to others." And it's a phrase that characterizes much of the attitude t ... discuss

by Newt Gingrich: President Obama’s oped in the Los Angeles Times this week made clear why his administration is hopelessly losing ground to radical Islamists.“Efforts to counter violent extremism ... discuss

A West Virginia state Senate committee yesterday passed a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks. More than 18,000 ‘very late term’ abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn bab ... discuss

By Patrick J. Buchanan“Free trade results in giving our money, our manufactures, and our markets to other nations,” warned the Republican Senator from Ohio and future President William McKinley ... discuss

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the w ... discuss

Benjamin Netanyahuby Josh Rogin, Bloomberg View: How do Americans feel about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Congress next month? According to one new poll, more support it than o ... discuss

Today in Washington, D.C. - Feb 18, 2015No Congress is not back in session. They are still in their districts for work period. Hope voters will speak to their Senators and Representatives on their i ... discuss

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media The Obama administration may be on the same side as the Muslim Brotherhood, but at least we know where they stand. Congress, by contrast, sounds tough and does noth ... discuss

Washington, DC – On February 27th, funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out. A funding bill has passed the House and has unanimous Republican support in the Senate . . .. . . but Dem ... discuss

Alan Caruba, Contributing Author: I read Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent call to European Jews to move to Israel in the wake of the attacks in Paris and in Copenhagen. “Israel i ... discuss

This day was observed, almost as a holiday, in our family. My dad would point out the day that he was torpedoed in World War II. His ship, the SS Deer Lodge, was sunk by the German U-516 on this day i ... discuss

Arlene from Israel The good guys give hope and promise for the possibility of better days coming. Many spirits were buoyed on Friday, when the news broke that Elie Wiesel had announced that he would b ... discuss

Santiago, Chile (CFAM) — When Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet signed a proposal to Congress last month to legalize abortion, it was a televised event that made international news.
Abortion ... discuss

Today is Presidents Day. By Act of Congress it is Washington’s Birthday. President Obama recently invited reporters into his kitchen and told them he the first president since George Washington ... discuss

As America’s pro-life movement advances to protect mothers and pre-born children, many work daily on diverse efforts — in crisis pregnancy centers, in churches praying faithfully, on the mission ... discuss

Last July, we reported that NPR talk-show host Diane Rehm helped her husband John commit suicide by choosing not to eat or drink, then agitated for “right to die” laws in an NBC News story, where ... discuss

In a move clearly intended by the Obama Administration to suppress the acquisition, ownership and use of AR-15s and other .223 caliber general purpose rifles, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firear ... discuss

Affordable Plumbing Act of 2014 is an adaption of SunBeams Times' Joe The Plumber and the Affordable Pumbing Act of 2013Self explanatory!*Only weeks after leaving office on January 20, 2017, former pr ... discuss

by Terence Jeffrey: President Barack Obama, who has acted unilaterally on everything from making war in Libya to granting work permits to illegal aliens in the United States, now wants a war authoriza ... discuss

Editorial Cartoon by AF BrancoIBD Editorial: Tangled Web: While in China, where free speech is suppressed, the president again pitched net neutrality, in which a "free and open Internet" is regulated ... discuss

Trevor Loudon is back in the states, gearing up for the 2016 election and spreading the word on how and why conservatives must win. Noted author and anti-communist figure Trevor Loudon from New Zealan ... discuss

If you can’t ban the gun, try to ban the ammo.
Via Daily Caller:
In a move clearly intended by the Obama Administration to suppress the acquisition, ownership and use of AR-15s and other .223 ca ... discuss

James Grant, in his new book The Forgotten Depression, makes a strong case for applying a prime directive of the Hippocratic Oath — “First, do no harm” — to economic policy. We today find ours ... discuss

I once met a woman who was born and raised in Iran and lived under the Shah, and later, under Ayatollah Khomeini. I remember how she spoke passionately, in her broken English, about just how terribl ... discuss

by Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch: So, just how much money is being spent in response to executive actions taken to house and accommodate illegal aliens? Your Judicial Watch is calling on members of Con ... discuss

by Newt Gingrich: Every member of Congress should vote NO on President Obama’s request for an “authorization for the use of military force” (AUMF) against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS ... discuss

by Rick Manning: The Obama Administration and their cohorts launched a double-barreled assault on the First Amendment this week.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) dumped 330 pages of regulato ... discuss

“Obamacare’s shoddy implementation doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of its great evil,” reported Breitbart late last year, referring to the healthcare rationing that is insidiously hi ... discuss

Wow! The Man-made Global Warming Hoax is a Hoax. Who saw this coming except anyone investing five minutes examining the scientific evidence from both sides? Or anyone remembering this is the same crow ... discuss

Mayor Sally Lee declared Sorsogon City a “Pro-Life City” on February 2, in honor of pro-life month in the Philippines. The executive order highlights pertinent provisions of the Philippine Constit ... discuss

by Eric Odem: Several days ago we reported that a 4-Star General is saying the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated all levels of Federal Government, including senior level positions. Muslim Brotherho ... discuss

by Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal: President Obama is calling on Congress to pass a three-year authorization of war against ISIS, also known as the Islamic State or ISIL.The draft request, formall ... discuss

President's Day - February 16, 2015by Alan Caruba, Contributing Author: I won’t be around to see it, but I have little doubt that future historians and others will conclude that President Barack Hu ... discuss

Today in Washington, D.C. - Feb. 12, 2015The House convened at 10 Am today. The Senate reconvened on at 9:30 AM today. The Senate began consideration of the nomination of Ashton Carter to be Secretar ... discuss

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress on Wednesday that even illegal immigrants who didn’t pay taxes will be able to claim back-refunds once they get Social Security numbers under President ... discuss

President Obama has asked Congress for permission to pullout of any future military engagement with the Islamic State on a publicly-announced timeline. The Commander in Chief is shown in this file pho ... discuss

Fundraising is something many choirs often deal with to help provide a budget for their program. One CMAA member is doing a clever idea this valentines day: Serenades for Your Sweetheart. For tho ... discuss

The South Carolina state House has approved a pro-life bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, because research shows unborn children can feel intense pain.
Called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protecti ... discuss

The West Virginia state House today passed a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks by an 87-12 margin. The vote came on the same day West Virginians for Life held a rally at the state capitol.
More tha ... discuss

Vatican City, Feb 11, 2015 / 12:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Two years to the day since Pope Benedict XVI told the world of his historic decision to step down from the papal office, those impacted by his p ... discuss

President Barack Obama, who has acted unilaterally on everything from making war in Libya to granting work permits to illegal aliens in the United States, now wants a war authorization from Congres ... discuss

Besides its arm's length defense of the 3/5 Compromise, there is probably no argument in The Federalist less likely to resonate with a contemporary audience than Alexander Hamilton's case against addi ... discuss

Today in Washington, D.C. - Feb. 10, 2015:The House reconvened today at Noon.The House will receive some administration communications and then recess until 4:30 PM today. Some of the bills expe ... discuss

From American ThinkerBy Bruce WalkerScott Walker has a bundle of connected political virtues – a strength that will remain largely hidden but which will become increasingly apparent as his public ... discuss

Washington D.C., Feb 10, 2015 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Just weeks after Pope Francis announced his intention to canonize missionary Father Junipero Serra during his upcoming visit to the states, a ... discuss

by Phil Kerpen, Contributing Author: The full-court press is on from every organ of enlightened liberal opinion: the Supreme Court must not decide this term’s big Obamacare case, King v. Burwell, on ... discuss

by Alan Caruba, Contributing Author: “When reporters forfeit their credibility by making up stories, sources, or quotes, we are right to mock them. When their violations are significant or repeat ... discuss

The pro-life movement is winning and nowhere is that seen more starkly than in polling data showing Americans strongly oppose abortion on demand.
A new Gallup poll out today shows more Americans are f ... discuss

By Joe Kral
January 22, 2015, was supposed to be a historic day. As many already know, this was the day for the annual March for Life that annually attracts hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers to the ... discuss

Los Angeles, January 30, 2015 – During its 72nd Annual Meeting in New York, at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) announced the winner ... discuss

Curious circumstances, if that? Hmmmm!
They have started investigating Loretta Lynch, Obama’s pick for Attorney-General and immediately they could see an interesting and unnerving connection. I ... discuss

Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2015 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The U.S. bishops and several other Catholic and pro-life groups are asking Congress to nullify two new Washington, D.C. laws that they say cou ... discuss

We wrote and recorded the following in December 2010 – the last time the Barack Obama Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was on the verge of imposing really awful Network ... discuss

By the time of the Crusades, Muslims had already captured 2/3 of the Christian world.
This piece, from 2002, after 9/11, notes Bill Clinton seemingly trying to justify Islamic terrorist behavior b ... discuss

by NRA-ILA: On Wednesday, the Library of Congress made the Rosa Parks Collection available to researchers. The compilation includes 2,500 photos and 7,500 manuscripts pertaining to the civil rights ... discuss

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